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Meta has announced that it will be removing restrictions on "hateful conduct," allowing users refer to women as "objects" and gay people as "mentally ill."

Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced on Tuesday 7 a series of changes to the content moderation actions on his platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads, eliminating fact-checkers, slowing down the processes of taking down potentially damaging content from the social fabric and reducing/reallocating his own moderation teams - all in the…

Facebook and Instagram will move away from using third-party fact checkers to flag misleading content.

Movement is building a layer-2 blockchain on Ethereum using technology from Facebook's failed crypto project.

It’s a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users

Facebook ditches its fact-checking program in favor of Elon Musk's army of disinformation zombies

Comments by co-chair of oversight board Helle Thorning-Schmidt come as X CEO welcomes rival’s move

Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warned Wednesday of "extremely dangerous times ahead" in an interview with AFP after social media giant Meta ended its US fact-checking program on Facebook and Instagram.

Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the spread of online lies among more than 3 billion people who use Meta’s social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads.